Miklos Gaál | Ilkka Halso | Nanna Hänninen | Janne Lehtinen | Anni Leppälä | Niko Luoma | Mikko Sinervo | Ea Vasko

Opening: Friday, 30 June 2023, 6 – 8 pm

Exhibition: 1 July – 9 September 2023

Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 34 and 35, 10969 Berlin

Persons Projects extends a warm invitation to visit our summer exhibition The Helsinki School Perspective. It will be presented in both gallery spaces Lindenstr. 34 and 35 and will feature a selection of artists from the Helsinki School who were pivotal at the beginning. The exhibition is dedicated to the historical aspect and shows how these artists used the photographic process as a voice for abstraction and a tool for interpreting our emotional landscapes. The Helsinki School platform was created by Timothy Persons in the 1990s and was inspired by his own experience with the Open Studio Concept that was popular during his graduate studies in the mid-1970s in Southern California. It grew to become the most extended sustainable educational platform of its kind consisting of 6 generations of selected MA students originating from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. There are more than 180 monographs and 6 volumes of the Helsinki School book to evolve from this program. This exhibition is curated to reintroduce a new perspective on the conceptual roots that the Helsinki School was built.

Sandra Kantanen | Eeva Karhu | Jorma Puranen | Santeri Tuori

Exhibition: 27 April – 28 June 2023


Opening: Friday, 28 April 2023, 6 – 9 pm

Venue: Persons Projects, Lindenstr. 34, 10969 Berlin

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023, Persons Projects is proud to present the group exhibition Refractive Landscapes. The show focuses on a selected group of artists from the Helsinki School who use abstraction as their mutual language in heightening our awareness of environmental changes in our natural surroundings. By using different photographic methods, the presented artworks capture the transformation of light through time and unveil the collective poses of change. Sharing an openness of form as well as a lack of sharpness of lines, the presented works bridge a conceptual dialogue between photography and painting that float on time, not in it.